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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: franksolich on August 03, 2012, 06:18:24 PM
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021069754
Oh my.
nadinbrzezinski (107,221 posts)
Hoo boy... American Exceptionalism (and class)
I have been wondering for a while why the US did not get a sense of class identity... and I think I have come up with one answer to this, and not a nice one. American Exceptionalism, which takes on religious overtones for the far right... is part of the answer... per usual it is NOT the only answer by the way.
So far, the only primitive who's been at this campfire's the skidmarked underwear primitive, the disconsolate older farmwife from eastern Iowa, who's perpetually unhappy because the world doesn't work out the way she thinks it should:
Skidmore (27,007 posts)
1. I think you are on target.
I have gotten into some glorious arguments with trying to further the notion that not one American life is any more valuable or meaningful than the life of any other inhabitant of this earth and that our collective needs as a people are not any more critical than any other peoples.
But...but...but....we are chosen to be the Guardians of the Flame...
nadinbrzezinski (107,221 posts)
2. You want a good book on this
fair warning, it is far right Strauss student... going through it right now. Let me know,
Now remember, "American exceptionalism" is one of nadin's bete noires, because when her grandparents and father, then a little lad, tried to get out of Poland back in 1939, the Democrat president, the Democrat Congress, the Democrat Supreme Court, and the Democrat Department of State, were unsympathetic to their plight, and so they ended up in Mexico instead.
Her contempt for America however doesn't keep nadin from grabbing all she can get from us.
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What the hell is Nadin talking about...........and if this is true Skidmore
Skidmore (27,007 posts)
1. I think you are on target.
I have gotten into some glorious arguments with trying to further the notion that not one American life is any more valuable or meaningful than the life of any other inhabitant of this earth and that our collective needs as a people are not any more critical than any other peoples.
But...but...but....we are chosen to be the Guardians of the Flame...
Why all the laws to promote/protect queers, lesbians, blacks, women, blah-blah-blah
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Her contempt for America however doesn't keep nadin from grabbing all she can get from us.
She perhaps believes that she is due whatever she can get as some sort of reparation for the perceived wrongs done to her predecessors sort of a 'Nads Exceptionalism payment.'
or as a former DUmmy would say in his posts "due beer and travel money, and many experiences".
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Yeah, Nadine thinks we should follow the example of the great country of MEXICO.
Maybe the reason class hasn't been an issue in America is that there has never been an American king or queen, count, countess, or Duke. That thought is just a little too much of a leap for Nadine and skidmark though. Hobbes had some people pegged exactly right.
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I guess someone forgot to tell Skidmark that there are some people that just need to be removed from the gene pool like Osama Bin Laden. Then again you have to have more then two brain cells to see that and that those kinds of people will not simply roll over and go away. They are evil and when confronted with it you either take them out or they do it to you.